Quotes About Creativity

When I work on my music, I always kind of just try to do my best work.

Just make things, and find people you love working with. If you're working on something you truly love and are passionate about, you will do your best work.

I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

I think that I know in my heart that I am making music that I would bet my life on.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I would like to do more film scoring, period. Whether it is a big film, a small film, or just anything. I feel like I have a lot to learn, and what better way to do it than on the job?

Finding a better way is all I do.

I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books.

'Lemonade' resonated with me, and I love the direction Beyonce is going with her music and her career.

Beyonce has a platform; what's a better way to speak on your platform than through your music?

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

Being from a big band is great because you can do other bands.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

No, I'm a quite big believer in not being in the studio if I don't feel like being in there.

I'm a big believer in bringing in other creative minds; I do it in my commercial work.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.